Railway joint



Feb. 4. 1925- 1,527,284

P. STELLINGWERF RAILWAY JOINT Filed Aug. 16, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Ill/I11 WITNESS:

Feb, 24, I925.

P. STELLINGWERF RAILWAY mm Filed Aug. 16, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 AITORNEY Patented ch. 2%, 19:25.

RAILWAY JOINT.

Application filed August 16, 1924.

To r/ZZ whom it may concern Be it known that T, PETER STELLINGWERF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Orange City, in the county of Sioux and State of Iowa, have invented new and useful Improvements in Railway Joints, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention has reference to an improved rail joint.

My object is to produce a rail joint of the scarf type in which the rail ends are so shaped as to provide an interlocking engagement therebetween to dispense with the employment of fish plates or the like and to produce av joint which will hold the rail ends from independent movement either vertically or laterally. and likewise prevent the tilting of said rail ends, while allowing for the necessary expansion and contraction.

To the attainment of the foregoing, reference is to be had to the drawings which accompany and which form part of this application.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a rail joint in accordance with this invention.

Figure 2 is a top plan view thereof.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on the line 33 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of one of the rail ends looking toward the inner face thereof.

Figure 6 is a similar view, but looking toward the outer face of the rail end.

As each of the rail ends is similarly constructed. a description of one will be taken as equally applicable to the other. By so constructing each rail end, the cost of manufacture of my improvement will be re duced.

The body of each rail is of an ordinary construction. including a head 1, a base 2 and a web 3 connecting the head and base. In carrying out my invention, T form on one side of the web of each of the rails an extension which I will refer to as a tongue and which is indicated by the numeral 4. The tongues 4 extend outwardly beyond the heads on the sides of the rails on which they are formed and project both beyond the heads and beyond the base flanges of the rails. The upper wall of the tongues, at the portion thereof formed with the head 1 of the rails is inclined upwardly toward Serial No. 732,560.

the saidheads, as indicated by the numeral 5, and this angle ledge increases the depth of the webs at this portion of the rails, it being noted that the upper edges of the tongues beyond the ends of the rails are slightly beveled, as at 6, from the ends of the rails to the outer ends of the said tongues. Also by rcference to the drawings it will be seen that the base flange of each rail terminates a considerable distance inward of the terminal of its head, and that the lower wall provided by the tongues is beveled, as at 7. The lower wall of each tongue is approximately centrally formed with a lug S and each of the said lugs has its under face cut at differentinclination than the inolined or beveled lower walls 7. For distinction. the inclined under walls of the lugs are indicated by the numeral 9.

At a suitable distance inward of the ter minal of the base 2 of each rail, the head 1 thereof is cut inwardly and from thence at an outward angle, the last mentioned out being indicated by the numeral 10, and the said out extending through the outer portion of the web 3 at its juncture with the head. The first mentioned cut provides a shoulder 11. The thinned ends of the heads. indicated for distinction by the numeral 12. termi nate in straight ends or shoulders 13, and the inner inclined walls thereof provide a ledge 14- on the upper edge 6 of the tongue 4, at the inclined or beveled face of the said end 12.

On the base flange of each rail, on the side thereof provided with the beveled head there are formed two so-i l upwardly directed lugs 15 respertii the upper walls of the said lu js being cut a downward inclination. as at 16, toward the web at its juncture with the base of the rail.

The of the rails are designed for inment. To accomplish this, one of the 1211 s is canted when its beveled inner face is arranged opposite the beveled face of the cooperating rail. This permits the lugs 8 being received in the gap between the lugs 15. and also allows the beveled under faces of the tongues 4 to rest on the beveled faces 16 of the lugs 15. The beveled or in-. clined walls 9 of the lugs 8 correspond to the inclination of the upper faces of the base flanges of the rails.

The webs of the rails are provided respectively with elongated and round bolt openings as are the tongue 4- directly above the lugs 8. Through these openings there are passed the usual bolts which are en- {raged bynuts, as disclosed in Figures 1, 2 and 4 of the drawings.

It is believed that the foregoing description, when taken in connection with the drawings will fully set forth the construction and operative association of the parts constituting my improved rail joint, but it is to be understood that I am not to be restricted to size, proportion, etc.

Having described the invention. I claim 2-- A scarf joint for railway rails comprising tongues formed on the opposite sides of the webs of the respective rails. each of said rails having its head terminating outward of its base flange and tongues projecting beyondthe head, said tongues having upwardly extendingledges to increase the depth of the webs at the portions of the rails on which the tongues are formed, each of said tongues having its under face beveled and centrally formed with a projecting lug whose under face is beveled in an opposite direction to that of the tongues. the opposite and inner face of each rail having its head cut inwardly and angularly over the top of the tongue and through the portion of the rail connecting the web and tongue, the base flange of the said side of the rails being formed with a pair of spaced upstanding elongated lugs whose upper faces are beveled to correspond with the beveled under faces of the tongues and the said lugs designed to receive thereon the said under faces of the tongues when the lugs on the tongues are arranged between the last mentioned lugs and the beveled faces and shouldered ends of the rails are in abutment, and means for locking the rails in such position.-

In testimony whereof I afli'x my signature.

PETER STELLINGWERF. 

